The Parousia "Some refer to it as the 'Second Coming.' Among scholars it is known as the 'parousia', the time when Christ will come again to the Earth in glory to judge the living and the dead. The earliest Christian writings, evangelism, and ecclesiastical structure reveal that this event was expected to occur within the first generation of Christians. As the years passed, however, some began to realize that the parousia was not going to occur as soon as expected. At the turn of the first century, the Church began to undergo some radical changes in order to adapt to this new situation. What was it like before? What was it like after? Read on to find out more."
Language and the Scriptures
by David Judd ( Queensland Pastor )Jesus and the Law
by Robert D. Brinsmead
http://www.quango.net/brinsmead/jesusandthelaw.htmJesus and Liberation Theology by Robert T. Osborn
Liberation theology not only promises liberation of the oppressed, the poor and the marginals of society, but even liberation from the limited dreams of the oppressed for the eternal vision and dream of God, his own promised kingdom.Articles by NAMASTE:
http://www.sirius8.org/insights.htmMaximos Confessor on the Infinity Of Man
by Panayiotis Christou
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/english/christouChristian mysticism
”Mysticism is concerned with the nature of reality, the individual’s struggle to attain a clear vision of reality, and the transformation of consciousness that accompanies such vision.”
www.digiserve.com/mystic/ChristianFeminist Theology in a Global Perspective
by Susan Hill Lindley
Feminist theology’s call to other liberation theologies is for them to take seriously the oppression of all women -- especially the double oppression of poor, minority and Third World women. In Christ there is neither…male nor female….all persons are created in the image of God and therefore have a right to develop their full potentials of personhood.The Escape From God
by Paul Tilich
"Men of all kinds, prophets and reformers, saints and atheists, believers and unbelievers, have tried to escape God. It is safe to say that a man who has never tried to flee God has never experienced the God Who is really God. When I speak of God, I do not refer to the many gods of our own making, the gods with whom we can Live rather comfortably. For there is no reason to flee a god who is the perfect picture of everything that is good in man.. A god whom we can easily bear, a god from whom we do not have to hide, a god whom we do not hate in moments, a god whose destruction we never desire, is not God at all, and has no reality"
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